IELTS Listening: transcript exercise

The first thing any regular train user should do is to book their tickets in advance, _____ exactly 12 weeks in advance. Those £300 tickets to Manchester, you can get them for just £25 return if you go online. You go to a website called thetrainline.com, you fill in their ticket _____ system, and you’ll get an email telling you when those tickets are available. Because they often _____ _____ very quickly, so when you get that email, act straight away.

But, and I know this sounds a bit sneaky, don’t actually buy them on thetrainline.com, because you’ll have to pay a £1.50 booking fee, and if you’re using your credit card another £1.50. Instead, _____ over to the East Coast website - you’d think that’s only trains down the East coast from London up to Edinburgh - it’s not; they will sell tickets for any trains anywhere in the UK, and they don’t charge a booking fee, and they don’t charge for credit card. So that’s another two or three _____ saved.

If you haven’t been able to buy a ticket a long _____ in advance, it is still worth remembering that up until 6 o’clock on the night before, you can still get Advance tickets. They won’t be as cheap as the Super-Advance ones, 12 weeks in advance, but it’s still _____ trying to buy them the night before.

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Hi Simon,

I just completed my speaking test today, and though I think I did well generally, I missed to answer one detail in the cue card section that I was suggested to include. The question goes like this:

Explain a good law in your country, please say:
1) what is it about?
2) when and where did you know about it?
3)and explain why do you think it is a good law.

I was able to answer it quite well although I forgot to say question # 2 when and where did I know about the law? so would that affect my score greatly? in which criteria you think and to what extent? is it still possible for me to achieve band 7?

The first thing any regular train user should do is to book their tickets in advance, __PERFECTLY___ exactly 12 weeks in advance. Those £300 tickets to Manchester, you can get them for just £25 return if you go online. You go to a website called thetrainline.com, you fill in their ticket __TO LEARN___ system, and you’ll get an email telling you when those tickets are available. Because they often __SET___ __UP___ very quickly, so when you get that email, act straight away.

But, and I know this sounds a bit sneaky, don’t actually buy them on thetrainline.com, because you’ll have to pay a £1.50 booking fee, and if you’re using your credit card another £1.50. Instead, ___POP__ over to the East Coast website - you’d think that’s only trains down the East coast from London up to Edinburgh - it’s not; they will sell tickets for any trains anywhere in the UK, and they don’t charge a booking fee, and they don’t charge for credit card. So that’s another two or three __QUICK___ saved.

If you haven’t been able to buy a ticket a long __WAY___ in advance, it is still worth remembering that up until 6 o’clock on the night before, you can still get Advance tickets. They won’t be as cheap as the Super-Advance ones, 12 weeks in advance, but it’s still ___WORTH__ trying to buy them the night before.

...and they don’t charge a booking fee, and they (don’t) charge for credit card...
I have listened above sentence serveral times and I know the man is say" they don't charge for credit card". However, I couldn't heard "don't".For me it sounds like: they charge for credit card.╮(╯▽╰)╭